Original title: demonstrations triggered by the G7 Summit
Xinhua news agency, onday, France, August 24 (reporter Ren Ke and Chen Chen) - the group of seven (G7) summit opened on the 24th in the heavily guarded coastal city of Biarritz in southern France. On the same day, demonstrations against the G7 summit also began simultaneously in the French town of onday, about 30 kilometers away from Biarritz.
That morning, the demonstrators set out from onday and walked along the Atlantic coast highway to a bridge several kilometers away to meet another group of demonstrators from Spain.
Demonstrators held various slogans and flags, some opposed capitalism, some called for environmental protection and climate change, some advocated social equity and so on. Other demonstrators raised long banners with large G7 and "no" written in more than ten languages to express their protest against G7.
"What we oppose is power politics. G7 is a club of the rich." Demonstrators aranka said. Another demonstrator, azagil, said: "G7 leaders have not taken enough action to deal with climate change and protect the ecological environment. They are just an elite club!"
According to the estimation of French police, more than 9000 people took part in the demonstration in onday that day. The organizer said that as many as 15000 demonstrators were present that day. Some protest organizers said they would continue to demonstrate in Bayona, closer to Biarritz.
According to French media reports, in Bayona, the police clashed with demonstrators on the same day, and the police also used tear gas and water cannons.